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... it no longer can be detected. Of course, Borovsky points out, if mosquitoes become resistant to their own reproductive hormone that could have unknown adverse consequences for them as well. "We have to stay a step ahead of them or outsmart them all over again," Borovsky said. In the decade since he began w...

...causes cleft palate in newborn mice. The critical points of the circuit represent genes and gene products t...le for human cleft palate. However as Dr. Melnick points out, the human situation may also be more complicated. "There are several tissues involved in formi...

...nal detection unitsthat can be deployed at various points along the food production supply chain. As envisioned, and depending on the particular application, the units will use avariety of analytical techniques such as optical spectroscopy, nucleic acidanalysis and mass spectrometry to identify quickly and...

...hosecostly studies would not be necessary, Bjostad points out. Bjostad believes the CO2 discovery op...ad's recent discoveries with termites and rootworm points to thepossibility that many soil-borne insects also rely on CO2 to locate food andshelter. If so, th...

...A. rudis", isnot the shortest distance between two points to begin with, and ants followingthe trail appear to zigzag along the way. That is because the pheromonereceptors in the tips of their two antennae orient them to the source of thepheromone and direct them to turn left or right. When they veer off ...

... heart disease risk with high folate intake. "This points to theneed to better understand how the effects of folate and other nutrients areaffected by overall diet and other lifestyle factors," says Krauss. Atpresent AHA recommends an intake of folic acid of 400 mcg/day. It encouragesthat this leve...

...perator simply places the VTM pointer adjacent two points he wishes to measure on the stereo-video image by ...of interest, the absolute distance between the two points is computed and displayed. Two additional features of the software enable improved accuracy of poin...

...in higher organisms is calledmethylation. McDonald points out that the vast majority of methylated genesequences in humans and other vertebrates are contained in transposableelements. Thus, McDonald argues, it is likely that methylation and other relatedsilencing mechanisms also originally evolved as a defe...

...helps, whosupervises the ADCs Program for the NIA, points out that the ADCs have beenestablished by the NIA over the past 15 years at academic institutionsnationwide to enroll patients for research studies related to Alzheimer'sdisease in the hope of improving diagnosis, and to create and test new therapies...

... women with these lower levels of the gene," he points out. "In patients with endometrial cancer, and who havent had chemotherapy or radiation before surgery, the presence of Rb2 is associated with a higher risk of dying independent of the stage of the disease. "This is the first r...

...aying for health care and paying for food," Alaimo points out. Most of those in the survey who reported food shortages said the primary reasons were lack of money, food stamps or WIC (the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children) vouchers; about 9 percent also blamed inadequa...

...and their influence on subsequent thinkers. Price points out that Malthus was not "just a country parson," ...inued, unresolved, to the present day." Price also points out that Malthus thought of himself, and was thought of by others until about 50 years ago, as an ec...

...ed to distribute the weight of the device over the points where it touches the ground. The prototype will support a rider who weighs up to 60 pounds, the weight of the wheelchair itself. Kumar is refining the design of the arms so they will be more useful for such tasks as opening doors or grasping objects....

...zheimer's, Parkinson's, stroke and epilepsy.Phelps points to this as evidence that advancement in radiotracer chemistry isallowing PET to move more fully in the everyday medical practice. Paper ORGN 2 will be presented by M. E. Phelps from 9:20. to 10:05 a.m., Sun...

...ly, the silicon chips could be placed at strategic points on a food production line or other sensitive area ...ogical applications," says Craighead. Batt points to the enormous challenge of detecting bacteria at every stage in the food processing industry. "As...

...e who oppose theteaching of evolution. Rather, it points out that most religious denominations in the United States do not view evolution as being at odds with their understanding of human origins. The idea that the entire universe was created all at once about 10,000 years ago ? an idea inherent in "crea...

...ril 17 issue of the journal Science . "Our study points to the effect of lifestyle. Stressful experience is remembered, and biases us toward responding forcefully to subsequent threats," McCobb says. Improved understanding of chemical signaling cascades in the endocrine system could lead to bette...

... Craig Packer says evidence from lions and baboons points tomenopause as a simple result of aging. The timi...nal ScienceFoundation (NSF). "This finding points out the importance of long-term, careful fieldstudies involving the behavior, life history and repro...

...mpossible to detect with current technology, he points out. They found male DNA in the blood of 32, or 46 percent, of the women. The Y chromosome DNA was present in only one of 25 normal women. The scientists also found Y chromosome sequences in skin biopsies in 11 of 19, or 58 percent, of th...

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